Alexandre Lacazette came with big expectations. We have all seen his scoring record for Lyon in France’s Ligue 1. He is deadly, yet he’s failed to hit the same dizzy heights with Arsenal. Why is that? More importantly, what can we do to help?

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When I read that Arsenal were intending on triggering Vardy’s release clause I was initially struck with a feeling of disbelief. Jamie Vardy, aged 28, currently plying his trade for Leicester City is now a target for Arsenal.

It didn’t make sense, it didn’t fit the mould, until that is, I thought more about what made Vardy tick last season. I saw a fair bit of him last season because his story intrigued me, Vardy the rapscallion who couldn’t make it at his first attempt dropped down out of the football league and fought his way back up. It is almost a fairytale, worthy of a straight to DVD budget film.

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Well – despite all negative comments I celebrated St Totteringham’s Day and I defy any Arsenal Fan that says I shouldn’t.

Football is all about rivalries, if we cannot celebrate getting one over our local rivals for the 21st year running, then what is the point of it all? “Stop being joyless human beings” to all those who seek to twist the celebrations into anything more or less than that.

The media is rife now with talk of negotiations with Borussia Monchengladbach for Xhaka and Real Madrid for Morata (their buy-back clause activates on the 1st July).↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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I mean really, could you just imagine if them idiots from down the road won the league? Well done to Leicester City. A fairytale it isn’t but it makes great copy and they deserved to win it, even though they didn’t do it in a way that necessarily makes me think of them as a great side. They’ve mastered the dark arts though and that in itself deserves some credit. They have taken the game and wrung the life out of it and smashed this league. They won’t do it next season, but for now, enjoy it.

It’s back on now, we’re within three points of the Spuds and plenty of opportunity to get them…. well….two opportunities, but got to be optimistic. It would upset me if they finished above us albeit I can hardly excuse the fact that we have let it happen. Arsenal are always the architects of their own downfall and we can point to numerous occasions this season where we have thrown away points.

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He’s been everyone’s fantasy signing for years. Consistent, exciting, creative, goal-scoring – few would have turned their nose up at his signing should we have been able to snaffle him up at some point during his glittering career.

Now however, is not that time. He’s not the Ibrahimovic we dreamt of signing. He is very much in the twilight of his career. I am excited and saddened at the thought that we will see him in the Premier League next season, excited because I’ve wanted to see him test himself against the best the Premier League has to offer, but saddened because it will be little more than one last adventure for him and I’m certain he isn’t on our radar.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was famously courted by Arsene years ago, but refused an invite to come over for a trial, suggesting that he didn’t need a trial to be good enough for us. You can’t argue that he was correct, but I cannot imagine what it would be like trying to integrate that personality and that ego into a dressing room already filled with Denis Bergkamp, Patrick Viera, Freddie Ljungberg and Thierry Henry.